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Enhancing Productivity with Notion

By : Danny Hatcher
Book Image

Enhancing Productivity with Notion

By: Danny Hatcher

Overview of this book

Notion is note-taking, wiki management, and task and project management software that gives you control of your working environment. By creating pages using a variety of block types and database styles, the possibilities are endless. This book will help you overcome challenges in managing large projects using Notion and creating documents using real-time updates with a great deal of flexibility, allowing everyone to have a customized view as per their needs. With this book, you'll become well-versed with Notion, where you’ll learn how to access, create, and change a workspace utilizing all the blocks, database views and properties, and advanced features and functions. From a table or list view to a Kanban board or gallery view, you'll get to explore several database options available in Notion. You’ll learn the skills to build pages, customize the aesthetics, create templates, and store, organize, and surface information through databases, all while building a system and workflow that works for you in your context. The book will also demonstrate how to import and export information and combine Notion with other tools using the API. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create a task management system, project management system, or any other system while combining it with other tools that speed up your work for better efficiency.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: Settings and Structure
6
Section 2: Database Options, Features, and Functions
12
Section 3: Creating Advanced Workflows

Formula output variations

In this section, you will learn how to use properties to work with formula inputs to make the formula more dynamic and automatic when changing database information.

As previously mentioned, you can use property information in place of arguments in a formula, allowing you to have more dynamic formulas as shown in Figure 9.2.

Creating a Due Date formula

The Due Date formula looks at the Start Date property for the date argument, finding out the number argument from the Number property, then finding out the time argument from the Time property and using that information in the dateAdd function to create a due date. This means that by changing the Start Date, Number, or Time property information, the formula will automatically change.

Figure 9.2 – A Due Date formula using other properties in place of the formula arguments

Note

The dateAdd function uses a text string in the Time argument, which means the letters in the...